friendsvsinteriorConfusable pair

Quick tell: friends is a noun, interior is an adjective, so they fill different roles in a sentence.

Which to use

“friends” is a noun and “interior” is an adjective - they look or sound alike but fill different roles in a sentence.

#11,235
“friends” frequency rank
#41,921
“interior” frequency rank
53156
confusion score

Side-by-Side Comparison

Feature friends interior
Definition Plural des Substantivs friend inner, innerlich

Letter map: friends vs interior

Shared letters muted; letters that set friends and interior apart highlighted. Shared run: 2. friends runs 7 letters (CCVVCCC) against interior's 8 (VCCVCVVC) - the length gap alone is often enough to separate them once you know to check it.

7 ch
friends
8 ch
interior

Grammar separator: friends vs interior

Our dataset has no pronunciation recorded for both members, so the reliable separator here is grammatical: friends is anoun and interioranadjective. On the page they differ by 1 letter(s) in length. Our composite confusion score for this pair is 53156, derived from the frequency rank of both members and their visual similarity.

friends is recorded at frequency rank #11,235, classified as anoun, pronounced […]. interior is at rank #41,921, tagged as anadj, pronounced […].

Glosses for this pair are partially populated in our dataset, but the full side-by-side definitions above should still guide you to the right choice.

With a confusion score of 53156, this pair ranks #1,069,016 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs - roughly mid-pack for confusability.

Orthographic DNA of friends vs interior

Shared letters: einr. Private to "friends": dfs. Private to "interior": ot.

"friends" · 7 letters · shape CCVVCCC  ·  "interior" · 8 letters · shape VCCVCVVC

Known mistypes of this pair

  • friendsffriends · firends · freinds · friedns · friendds · friendss · friennds · friensd
  • interiorinetrior · innterior · inteiror · interiorr · interiro · interoir · interrior · intreior

Frequently Asked Questions

Is swapping "friends" for "interior" ever safe?
No - they are not even the same part of speech. "friends" is a noun and "interior" an adjective, so a sentence built for one is usually ungrammatical with the other.
In ordinary German text, does "friends" or "interior" show up more?
"friends" is the more common of the two: it sits at frequency rank #11,235 in our German list, against #41,921 for "interior". The two are close in frequency, so neither is a safe default; check the meaning rather than guessing.

After this comparison

You've compared "friends" and "interior". Here's where to go from here.

  • Full dictionary entry for "friends" with definition, IPA, and generated misspellings. Word entry
  • Full dictionary entry for "interior" - compare definitions side by side with the headword page. Word entry
  • This pair ranks #1,069,016 of 2,006,359 scored German confusable pairs in this corpus vintage. Corpus statistics
  • "friends" and "interior" also get mixed up with nearby pairs, the highest-scored neighbour is "interior vs puzzles". Nearby pair
  • Recorded mistypes exist for at least one side of this pair, useful when a spell-checker or OCR lands on the wrong form. See mistypes

Confusion rank #1,069,016 of 2,006,359 scored German pairs, corpus vintage 2026-09-03, not spelling advice.

Source: Wiktionary (via kaikki.org) Structured Wiktionary extract

Source: FrequencyWords open word-frequency list